Reconstruction of Holocene foreland progradation using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating: An example from Dungeness, UK

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 495-505

  Roberts, H M ^a   Plater, A J ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coarse grained quartz; Dungeness; Gravel foreland progradation; Holocene; Optical dating; Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL); Single aliquot regenerative dose (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAVEL; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PROGRADATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DUNGENESS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; KENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447548960     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607077034     Document Type: Article

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